β Scribed by Manu Joseph
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Ousep Chacko, journalist and failed novelist, prides himself on being " the last of the real men." His wife, Mariamma, finds ways to feed her family despite their lack of money, but in her spare time she fantasizes about Ousep' s early death. One day, their seventeen-year-old son, Unni-- a boy obsessed with comics-- does something terrible and inexplicable. Ousep and Mariamma separately try to solve the mystery of Unni' s action but find no answers. Three years later, Ousep receives a package that sends him back to the search. He starts to hound his son' s friends and a famous neurosurgeon. Meanwhile, younger son Thoma-- a twelve-year-old with below-sea-level self-esteem-- falls desperately in love with their haughty, beautiful teenage neighbour, who has her own secrets. The Illicit Happiness of Other People -- a smart, wry and poignant novel-- is part mystery, part philosophy and part unlikely love story.
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